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7/02/2015

Take a deep breath and savor the moment. We’re going to have a very
short time before the parents’ groups of the world start loudly freaking
the fuck out over Rihanna’s new video for “Bitch Better Have My Money,” so we need to appreciate every moment that that isn’t happening. Rihanna shared a preview
of the video a few days ago, promising nudity and language and
violence. She wasn’t kidding. The clip features Rihanna and a couple of
friends kidnapping a rich lady and holding her for ransom, and it ends
with a naked Rihanna, covered in blood, smoking weed while sitting in a
trunk full of cash. The actors Mads Mikkelsen and Eric Roberts appear in
the video, and there is an actual story arc. But all that is secondary
to the sheer bold imagery of Rihanna, lounging in a blow-up pool on the
deck of an oil tanker, firing an uzi off into nothingness, or getting
her hostage high while throwing money up in the air in a hotel room
somewhere. It’s a hell of a video, and Rihanna co-directed it with Megaforce.